Frankie Dettori revealed that his time in the Celebrity Big Brother house had been ’emotionally challenging’ after he was evicted (Picture: Getty Images)

Jockey Frankie Dettori and actress Tricia Penrose have missed out on a place in the Celebrity Big Brother final after being given the boot in a semi-final double eviction.

Dettori was the first to learn he would be leaving the house on Wednesday night after scoring lowest in the latest round of public voting, while former Heatbeat actress Penrose left the house soon after.

Their departure now means that Claire Richards, Rylan Clark, Neil ‘Razor’ Ruddock, Ryan Moloney and Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt – aka ‘Speidi’ – will compete in Friday’s final in a bid to be crowned series champion.

The pair were given the boot despite the public’s continued dislike of Heidi and Spencer, chanting the refrain ‘get Speidi out’ as the eviction results were announced.

And despite narrowly missing out on the final, Dettori appeared delighted to be leaving the house, shouting, ‘Yes! Yes!’ after learning he had been evicted.

Afterwards he told Brian Dowling that it hadn’t been easy. ‘When you’re stuck in a house and you’re being dragged from one extreme to the next emotionally, it’s very challenging,’ he admitted.

‘The house got to me at the end. There was a lot of friction. I’m a lover not a fighter. There was a lot of arguing and I just kept away from it. It wasn’t fun anymore in the end.’

Tricia Penrose admitted she was disappointed to have missed out on the final – and wasted no time in calling Speidi ‘two-faced’ (Picture: Getty Images)

Meanwhile Penrose – who like Dettori left the house to a largely positive reaction – wasted no time in airing her true feelings about Speidi, accusing them of being ‘phoney’ and ‘two-faced’.

‘They’re a very strange couple – I can’t get my head around them,’ she said in her eviction interview. ‘They’re definitely playing a game.’

‘I don’t know what you’re seeing out here, but it’s very atmospheric in the house.’

However she added that it was probably the conflict they created which was keeping them on the inside.

‘Without them it would be boring,’ she admitted. ‘We didn’t do much. It was them, they’re the drama queens. They made it so difficult.’